Accounts, surveys, and correspondence of Churchill and his brother Seldon Churchill of Utica, New York, pertaining to the costs of warrants, commissions, the locating and surveying of western lands, interest and taxes, breaking sod, ditching, seeding, and wages, all pertaining to military warrants for 11,570 acres of land in Iowa, 1847-1850; some warrants were used for speculation, others were located.

Warrants, notes, summonses for trespass and damage, petition for incorporation of Athens township, survey reports for roads; persons mentioned include Edward Herrick, John M'Kean, and Jonathan Stevens.

News clippings, surveys, and other materials documenting a telephone survey of taxpayers in Ithaca, New York, done by Cornell University students in planning course 649, "Informal Study in Planning Practice," in cooperation with Ithaca Taxpayers Association.

Land survey maps drawn by Cornell Civil Engineering students during summer surveying camps at various locations in New York State, including Cayuga, Cayuta, Canandaigua, Keuka, Owasco, and Skaneateles Lakes; an index showing the location of the camp each year; surveyor's field book, 1934; diary of the Cayuga Lake Survey kept by successive groups of students, 1874-1879; and a "Camp Cascadilla" kitchen inventory, 1908.

Collection of several hundred pages of letters, blueprints, and land surveys by and about the Israeli Civil Engineer Josef Margolin, who worked on laying out the early settlements of Israel.

Correspondence of Lewis Selye of Rochester, on Penn Yan business matters.

Includes graduate research papers for thesis entitled "A Comparison of Forests at the Time of European Settlement and During 1981 in an Area Surrounding Keuka Lake, New York." Includes drafts, photocopies of original land surveys (1788-1827) of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, annotated U.S. Geological Survey maps, recently published soil surveys of Steuben and Schuyler counties, field notes, and articles from 19th and early 20th century concerning the Keuka Lake area.

Survey records, field books, survey maps, and deeds pertaining to the Constable Purchase, under the direction of Benjamin Wright; deeds for Constable and Alexander Macomb in Jefferson, St. Lawrence, and Franklin Counties, New York.